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There’s a standard joke line every time another problem is blamed on climate change. It’s “climate change: Is there anything it CAN’T do?” That’s because climate change is blamed for cold weather, hot weather, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes, and recently, even the exodus of refugees to America (which is usually caused by socialism, but maybe…

President Donald Trump ordered Thursday that key documents be declassified to aid Attorney General William Barr as he tries to determine whether government surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016 originated unlawfully. “The heads of elements of the intelligence community … and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the…

Twitter permanently banned two left-wing social media stars this week for allegedly “purchasing account interactions” and “operating multiple fake accounts.” Prominent members of the online anti-Trump “resistance,” brothers Ed and Brian Krassenstein combined for more than 1.6 million followers on the site before their ban, according to the Daily Beast. But amid pushback from fans…

The year 2020 was going to be the “year of the woman” in our politics. But then, so was 2016 and 2008. But the recent polling suggests that female candidates have not taken off but still lag behind the white men: former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. And, virtually tied with them…

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler came close to collapsing during a news conference with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York on Friday. The New York Post reported that Nadler, 71, “put his head down” and “grew pale” at the event, which took place around noon. “Code blue in the…

A tornado warning was issued as a storm blasted Washington, D.C., on Thursday, prompting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to link the conditions to climate change, a theory that a meteorologist debunked on Twitter. The freshman lawmaker shared a video showing the stormy conditions on her Instagram. “There’s people stuck outside. We need to get them out,”…

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Alabama and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a lawsuit Friday morning against restrictive Alabama abortion legislation signed in May. ACLU groups and Planned Parenthood filed the lawsuit “on behalf of Alabama abortion providers” in the United States District Court of the Middle District of Alabama,…

Chicago lawyer Tina Tchen refused to accept a subpoena on Wednesday related to a retired Illinois judge’s attempts to investigate her communications with Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx regarding the case of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett. Former Illinois Appellate Judge Sheila O’Brien issued a subpoena demanding that Tchen, who used to serve as…

North Korea said on Friday that they will never resume nuclear negotiations with the United States unless President Donald Trump’s administration modifies what they consider to be unilateral demands for disarmament. An unknown North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson reportedly blamed the U.S. for February’s nuclear summit failure in Hanoi on the Korean Central News Agency.…

A Chaldean Catholic Church leader warned British officials this week that after decades in decline, Iraqi Christians are now facing their “final, existential struggle.” Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq, met individually with United Kingdom leaders and addressed members of both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday, the U.K. Tablet reported. He called on the British…

Two campaigns will collide when Walmart holds its annual shareholders meeting on June 5, but the retail giant doesn’t plan to devote much time to either. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders will be speaking at the meeting, using the power of his presidential candidacy to advance Walmart workers’ effort to give hourly workers a…

First, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota mocked HUD Secretary Ben Carson for not meeting her standards of perkiness during a recent congressional hearing. Then, Carson rebuked Omar by reminding her of what really matters. “Not sure he was fully awake, maybe he meant to reclaim his time back to sleep,” Omar tweeted, referring to…

A federal judge expressed deep skepticism over a lawsuit by House Democrats that seeks to cut funding for President Donald Trump’s border wall. During a three-hour court hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden questioned the legitimacy of a lawsuit that challenges the White House’s funding of border wall construction without explicit permission from Congress,…

United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday she is stepping down from her position after nearly two years of taking Great Britain on a bungled path toward Brexit. May survived two votes of no confidence — one from her own Conservative members of Parliament in December and another from the House of Commons in…

As the 2020 election approaches, Facebook says that it has stopped paying employees commissions for the sale of political ads on the social media platform. Political advertisements are now perceived as a “headache” to Facebook, according to former Facebook employees and digital campaign strategist, The Wall Street Journal reported. The alleged Russian meddling in the…

Al Jazeera is a major, international TV network that pushes radical Islam in the Arabic language, while appearing liberal in the English language. Both sides of the network have repeatedly espoused anti-Semitism. This week, it apologized for a Holocaust-denying video and blamed two rogue journalists. But history — including holding a party for a terrorist…

The way that declining divorce rates are being discussed these days, Americans could easily conclude that marital breakdown is no longer a serious problem. That’s hokum. Whether the percentage of marriages that will eventually dissolve is still 45 percent or higher, or might eventually drop to “only” about one-third, that is too many, and the…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was surprised Wednesday to discover common ground with House Republicans amid concerns of surveillance of American citizens. The House Committee Oversight hearing reflected that lawmakers agree on increased legislation to regulate facial recognition technology used in major companies to track the American public. “Check the sky for flying [pigs] bc Rep. Meadows,…

Top Senate negotiators agreed to a nearly $20 billion disaster relief package for Americans, but the deal notably excludes additional funding for the beleaguered U.S.-Mexico border. Senate Republicans, with President Donald Trump’s blessing, have approved a $19.1 billion dollar relief bill for communities affected by natural disasters, such as the devastating wildfires in California and hurricanes…

CNN might not be as healthy as it wants you to think, at least if recent reports are correct. The left-leaning network sure likes to act as if it’s the authority when it comes to cable news, but its vital signs may be faltering. Ratings flat-lined in April, and the channel has been losing major…

While the first primary elections in the 2020 electoral season are still many months away, there are already roughly two dozen Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination, and that number could grow over the next few months. The abundance of candidates has presented a particular problem in terms of the impending Democratic primary debates,…

Transparency matters. A hallmark of our republic is that government officials are accountable to the American people, and nobody is above the law. That’s been something conservatives have pointed out for years, but lately it’s the left that has jumped on the “transparency” bandwagon. Since Donald Trump took office, liberals have complained about a lack…

Amid the talk about the growing problem of social media censorship, much of the focus has been on the ideological variety that has largely been aimed at the right half of the political spectrum. But in reality, social media censorship has actually become broader than just about silencing certain political views and is working to…

If you saw the headline “‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh Is Getting Out of Prison Today. He Still Might Be Radicalized,” you might not have blanched at it. After all, the article about his Thursday release could have been coming from a conservative source like National Review or The Daily Caller and conservatives would always…

Not long ago, New York hotshot lawyer Michael Avenatti — who rose to fame by representing adult film star Stormy Daniels — suggested that if he ran for president in 2020 as a Democrat, he would have little trouble beating President Donald Trump. “Yes,” Avenatti told Newsweek last year, he could “absolutely” defeat Trump. Then…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t waste any time trying to connect “climate change” to an unusually severe thunderstorm system that prompted a tornado warning as it moved over the nation’s capital on Thursday. But the way she went about it was so embarrassingly inaccurate that a meteorologist had to shut her down before it got any…

Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti has just been hit, yet again, with federal felony criminal charges. This time, Avenatti has been indicted in the Southern District of New York for allegedly defrauding one of his clients — presumed to be former porn star actress Stormy Daniels, who Avenatti represented in his rise to notoriety, according to…

Democrats may be the harshest critics of school choice, but recent polling data shows that a majority of black and Hispanic Democrats support charter schools. According to 2018 polling data provided to Chalkbeat from Education Next, a journal that deals with education reform, just 27 percent of white Democrats support charter schools, compared to 50…

Democrats baying for Bill Barr’s blood might want to back off a bit. Bitterly frustrated by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report that essentially cleared President Donald Trump and his campaign of the ludicrous “collusion” charge with Russia, Nancy Pelosi’s party has turned its sights on Attorney General William Barr, claiming he’s acting as the president’s…